Rick's World

Amazing Yesterday, Microsoft announced the rules for how developers can develop applications for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The only problem is, the way these rules are currently written, Microsoft has no prayer of ever beating Apple's iPho… more »

iPhone Development Blog: The blog of Jeff LaMarche, one of the two authors of the Beginning iPhone Development book. Lots of good stuff on iPhone programming. He's also on Twitter as @jeff_lamarche iSmashPhone: This site contains various news artic… more »

Many iPhone applications present a brief 'splash screen' when starting up. Here's how to make one. Create a PNG image named 'Default.png'. It must be exactly that filename, case sensitive. Put this in your Resources folder of the project. The app… more »

With the NDA finally lifted, it's time for my first quick iPhone SDK article. Recently, I developed an iPhone application for a company a friend of mine works for. The application worked well, but when the application was complete, the one thing mis… more »

This is the best news about the iPhone that I've read in months! The iPhone is a great device to develop for. The problem is, it can be a very difficult device to program for, especially if you are not an expert at Objective-C and Mac programming in… more »

*sigh* Even when I have legal copies of Windows XP, it still seems to enjoy aggravating the hell out of me. I use a Mac Pro at home. I've written in the past about how great it was and how I could run Windows XP in a virtual machine so well that I… more »

In the last 24 hours, I've received a flood of over 150 comment spams from the same IP address: 62.33.12.104 This IP appears to be coming from somewhere in Russia. All the spams were advertisements for various prescription drugs. I have banned… more »

I've used eBay and Paypal for many years now. So has my family. One of the ongoing problems lately is phishing attacks that steal your eBay and/or Paypal accounts. These phishing attacks come by way of a forged email that looks like it's from eBay. I… more »

Above you see a screenshot of a graph from my web site statistics. This graph shows the number of hits to my site on a daily basis over the last several months. As you can see, most of the time, the number of hits is pretty consistent. There have been… more »

Hmm, it seems like I've become an 'image blogger' without ever intending to. I regularly study my site statistics. My blogging software provides one set of stats, and my web host provides a different set of stats. I also use Google Analytics, which… more »